Tyra Banks show "Decodes video game player"

[CoL0sS]

Made me laugh so hard. When Tyra asked - Wouldn't it be nice if you came home and your girlfriend was like "Honey you're my hero!!!" I imagined the guy responding in Solid Snake -like manner "No Tyra. I'm no hero. Never was, never will be."
But seriously, how did poor fella get tricked into doing that show.

 

[s0denone]

First off, you missed my name in your quote here, so I didn't know you had replied!

One does not "escape" without knowing where he is going... certain people escape to certain things: if I like to day-dream in school about being a space-marine, I'm not going to go home and play Final Fantasy.

Sure. Preference plays a large part. It plays the entire part.
I am into football(soccer) a whole lot. It is a much bigger passion than "gaming".
Does that mean I play football games? Of course!

Yes, I am quite aware of this. Nowhere have I stated otherwise, and if I did, then that is my mistake. Like I said, taste in videogames is not a good way to learn about someone, but nevertheless, the signs pertaining to personality there.

I thought you were indeed implying causating in correlation. I misunderstood - sorry.

Yes, Morgan Webb's summary of gamer architypes is broad, yes it is a bit offensive. But I don't see how one can debate the notion that peronality and psyche haven't any bearing on taste in art. I'm still not convinced you are correct, can you maybe provide a hypothetical example of some sort?

I'll use myself as an example. Nothing hypothetical about me.

As mentioned before. I am a huge football fan. I am also a fan of icehockey, basketball and American footbal.
What would you associate with such a person normally?
??

That is the whole problem.
You cannot infer anything based on ones preferences.

You can say "Sports fans enjoy sports games", sure!
You cannot, however, say "Sports fans enjoy sports games, and are also aggressive people"

You cannot say "You are an aggressive person, you are going to like this game"
You cannot say "You strike me as a reserved, shy person. You are going to like this other game".

You cannot infer traits or personality from preference - or the other way around.

 

[le picklez]

I am a lady who loves videogames; me and my fiance often game together and we have filthy LAN Diablo-in-bed evenings involving a couple of old laptops, Diablo 2 and a heap of assorted sweeties. I've often thought that our mutual adoration of videogames brings us closer together; maybe the girl criticizing her boyfriend should get in there and have a go? It's amazing what a joint frag-fest can do for a relationship

I'm 28 with a stable job, lots of friends, plenty of hobbies and an active social life. Why does gaming always have to appear detrimental (in the eyes of the media) to personal social development? Sure, I spent 3 years locked up in a dark room doing nothing but play videogames, but it's hardly affected me in any negative way.

...... Wat. Just wat.

 

[Direwolf750]

Bullshit. I only don't use more profanity so I don't get in trouble with the mods. There are more types of games. People who play games for the story don't have to be romantic. And people who play shooter's don't have to be warriors...can't say about sports, I hate sports games, and if that is all you play, I don't consider you a gamer. Also, just in general, these are all misconceptions. And she obviously isn't that good at getting his attention if she can't pull him away from a sports game...try to work on yourself a bit before complaining to a TV host for relationship advice.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

"Oh no, someone is saying something bad about videogames, TO THE BATMOBILE!"

There are people who hurt their relationships with videogames. This is usually not ideal.

Webb is giving pop psychology that is perfectly genre-appropriate for the show. It's a little bit obnoxious at the level of naive theorizing and broad generalization, but that's par for the course on Tyra. Notice that she never said anything to suggest that games were for kids (she insinuated childhood might be involved, but she never said that made it inappropriate for adults as Tyra suggested). She never said that playing them was bad. She even framed it using the sort of qualities the average person would want in a relationship. The only negative thing she said was that he should probably try to spend more time on his relationship.

Grabbing your torches and pitchforks whenever anything negative is said about games makes you look foolish and reinforces the stereotype that this is a hobby for the immature. People can eat to the point of personal detriment, they can work out to the point of personal detriment, they can watch television to the point of personal detriment, and they can play games to the point of personal detriment. It would be nice to see them proposing that maybe she could try to play some games with him and try it out, but even that shouldn't be taken to mean that she should have to like them. If he's spending too much time doing that, as with anything, he should seriously consider how much the relationship means to him.

But all Webb did here was to give a wholly positive and fully digestable explanation to a group of people genuinely struggling to understand.

We should be fucking applauding her.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

It's hilarious that anyone who plays video games past the age of about 20 nowadays is classed as obsessed. Everyone has things that they do for a couple of hours at a time on a regular basis; things that aren't quite part of a daily routine, but just sort of happen. Be it regularly watching TV, meeting up with a few friends, phone calls, shopping, whatever.

But somehow, if you're an adult male playing computer games, it's a worrying obsession; a character flaw that needs to be addressed.
The next time someone calls you out as addicted (or similar), think of something you know they do in the same time frame. Engage them in rational discourse over the nature of obsession, and what actually qualifies as too much time spent on an activity.
Or shout them down, that works too...

 

[Chazz16]

i hate how Morgan Webb tried to find mens personality threw what types of games he plays...

i play fantasy,shooting,and sports games...what does that say about me....NOTHING,it says nothing about me just that i like playing video games.

Morgan should stop acting like a Psychologist >_>